Vinegar apparatus



(No Model.)

P. SPINK.

VINEGAR APPARATUS. No. 439,980. Patented Nov. 4, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

PETER SPINK, OF OOVINGTON, KENTUCKY.

VINEGAR APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 439,980, dated November 4, 1890.

Application filed March 6, 1890. Serial No. 342,888. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, PETER SPINK, of Govington, in the county of Kenton and State of Kentucky,have invented a new and Improved Apparatus for Making Vinegar, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, which is a diagrammatic View.

The object of my invention is to provide simple and efficient apparatus for the manufacture' of vinegar from low wines, cider, and malt, and for saving and utilizing the acetous and vinous vapors that are generally lost by evaporation.

My invention consists in a series of tanks or cisterns arranged so that the vapors arising from one set of tanks will be condensed and saved in another set.

In carrying out my invention I provide a receiver A, into which wines and vinegar are pumped from a cistern, and I discharge the liquid contained in the receiver through a tube 5 into a series of tanks 1, the liquid being received in tilting receptacles 13. hen the said receptacles are filled, they are tilted by pulling the cords a attached thereto, and their contents are discharged upon the perforated diaphragm b, by means of which the liquid is distributed, and through which it is discharged onto beech shavings 0- contained in the tanks below the diaphragm. b. The liquid flows out of the tanks 1 through the pipes 0 into the tanks 2, being received in tilting receptacles B, as in the other case, and when the said receptacles are filled they are emptied upon the perforated diaphragms b of the tanks 2 and the liquid is discharged from the said tanks 2 into the reciver 6 through the pipe 7. The vapors generated in the tanks 1 are carried upward through the pipes 8 and discharged into the tanks 3, where they are partly or wholly condensed, and the vapors from the tanks3 are discharged through pipes 9 into receivers D, the said receivers being provided with perforated false bottoms d, upon which are placed beech-shavin gs O. The small receivers D are charged in alternation with the liquid from the tank 0, which is forced up by the pump E and discharged into the top of the said receivers in alternation. These receivers are thrown alternately into communication with the tanks 3, and while one of the said small receivers is in communication with the tank 3 the other is receiving liquid through the pipe 10 from the pump E. In this manner the process is rendered continuous, and all of the vapors commonly wasted in the manufacture of vinegar are condensed and saved.

The discharge of the liquid into the tanks 1 2 3 is efiected periodically by the tilting receptacles B, so as to insure perfect distribution of the liquid throughout all parts of the tank. The complete article is discharged from the tanks 3 through the pipe llinto the receiver 12.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In an apparatus for making vinegar, the two series of filtering-tanks, one above the other, a pipe delivering into the upper ends of the lower series, a series of vapor-pipes leading from the spaces in the upper ends of the lower series through the bottoms of the upper series into the filtering material therein, and outlets in the bottoms of both series for the liquid, substantially as set forth.

2. In an apparatus for making vinegar, the three series of filtering-tanksl 3 D, one above the other, vapor-pipes leading from the spaces in the tanks through the bottoms of the tanks 3 and discharging into the filtering material therein, a supply-pipe discharging into the series of tanks 1, a receiver 6, into which the lower series 3 discharge, a pump for transferring the liquid from said receiver to the filtering-tanks D, pipes connecting the lower ends of the tanks D with the upper ends of tanks 3', and a receiver 12, into which the lower ends of the tanks 3 discharge through pipe 11, substantially as set forth.

3. In an apparatus for making vinegar, the series of tanks 2 l 3 D, one above the other, containing filtering material C, vapor-pipes 8, discharging the vapor from the upper ends of tanks 1 into the filtering material in tanks 3, two sets of valved pipes 9, connecting the lower ends of tanks D below the filtering material with tanks 3 above said material, pipes 0, connecting the adjacent ends of tanks 1 2, a pipe 11, leading from lower ends of tanks 3, a receiver into which pipe 11 dis charges, a receiver 6, a pipe 7, connecting it with lower ends of tanks 2, and a pump for transferring the liquid from receptacle 6 to the upper ends of tanks D, substantially as set forth.

5 4. In an apparatus for making vinegar, the combination of two series of tanks provided with perforated diaphragms and furnished with tilting receptacles, a distributing-tank,

and receiving-tanks, the series of tanks being connected so that the vapors of one series are 10 condensed in another series, substantially as specified.

PETER SPINK. Witnesses:

THOS. DUNN, J OHN GILLIGAN. 

